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Transactional lawyer with 27 years of experience in M&A transactions, joint ventures, complex commercial arrangements, dispute resolution and IP management/licensing.Worked for 8 years at an AmLaw 100 firm and the last 18 years in-house with a North American team for a global food and agribusiness company. Experience Handling Complex Transactions * Manage teams making investments and building facilities in multiple jurisdictions * Lead acquisition and divestiture transactions around the world * Form and dissolve joint ventures in tech, food and commodity spaces * Negotiate multi-million dollar loan and equipment lease transactionsExperience Managing IP Assets * Oversee prosecution and maintenance of portfolio of hundreds of patents * Oversee prosecution and maintenance of portfolio of hundreds of trademarks * Advise inventors, senior leaders and business partners regarding IP issues * Negotiate numerous IP license agreements and R&D agreementsExperience Supporting Business Teams * Primary contact for all legal issues for commodity/B2B business team * Handle transportation legal needs (rail, barge, trucking) for multiple business units * Advise marketing teams on legal and business issues * Support acquisition of new business lines and construction of new facilitiesAdmitted to bar in Missouri and Colorado.

Listed skills include Corporate Law, Transportation Law, Mergers And Acquisitions, Intellectual Property Law, and 1 others.